I'm a nursing student that's about to graduate and I've been offered work at a psych ward as a RN after I graduate. I've heard it's hard to get into other fields of nursing if you start in psych. I didn't particularly care for my psych clinicals but I feel if I'm being offered a job I should take it before I miss out on employment.
My goal is to become a ER nurse and a firefighter.
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Are you following Joe Paciello's footsteps or something? xD Lol
You know, you can always leave the job if you don't like it. It's not like you're stuck with it forever. Try it out, see how it goes. Perhaps you can make a visit to their ward and see what it's like before you just blindly take the job. Lol it's better to see what you're going into, rather than hear it.
Psych wards take a lot of tolerance too. Hopefully you have that sort of tolerance and patience! haha
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I have heard that, but jobs are reaaaally hard to come by currently. It may be a challenge to branch into something else but it can also be great job experience. You need psych for everything, dealing with people in any career requires those skills.
I think you should eventually be a firefighter-you would look very handsome in the uniform & have the woman chasing you like crazy
Anonymous
Wouldn't psych experience be really useful in ER work, because a lot of people who roll into the ER have psych problems? I don't see how it could possibly be an obstacle. But I'm not a nurse.
Brittany
as a nurse it's pretty easy to branch out into other departments. you don't necessarily have to take the first job offered to you. there are tons of nursing jobs being offered since there is a lot of demand for it. if you don't like psych then don't do that. you don't wanna have the possibility of being stuck in something you dislike
Anonymous
This is sort of out of my field of expertise (donuts), but wouldn't it be kind of weird if I got admitted to a psych ward "again" and you had to treat me?